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... equally inconsistent with safety and with comfort . Many persons are cast upon the world , and engaged in the business of active life , who have never seriously examined the foundations of the religion to which they nominally belong ...
... equally inconsistent with safety and with comfort . Many persons are cast upon the world , and engaged in the business of active life , who have never seriously examined the foundations of the religion to which they nominally belong ...
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... equally unex- ceptionable , is furnished by a long epistle of Clement , Bishop of Rome , which was addressed by him to the Corinthian Christians , about fifty years after the death of Jesus : the whole tenour of which proves 1 See ...
... equally unex- ceptionable , is furnished by a long epistle of Clement , Bishop of Rome , which was addressed by him to the Corinthian Christians , about fifty years after the death of Jesus : the whole tenour of which proves 1 See ...
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... equally directed against the self - indulgence of the rich ; against the pride and hypocrisy of the Pharisees ; against the immoral and degrading prin- ciples of the Sadducees ; against the unsocial and levelling tenets of the Essenes ...
... equally directed against the self - indulgence of the rich ; against the pride and hypocrisy of the Pharisees ; against the immoral and degrading prin- ciples of the Sadducees ; against the unsocial and levelling tenets of the Essenes ...
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... Jesus exercised over the law , he equally claimed over the interpreters of the law . We learn from various incidental notices , how highly the Scribes and Pharisees were esteemed among all those over 24 CHRISTIANITY OPPOSED TO.
... Jesus exercised over the law , he equally claimed over the interpreters of the law . We learn from various incidental notices , how highly the Scribes and Pharisees were esteemed among all those over 24 CHRISTIANITY OPPOSED TO.
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... equally have in- duced them to abstain . No But are we sure that these passages always existed where we now find them ? The Christians have for many , very many centuries , had the posses- sion of these title - deeds of their religion ...
... equally have in- duced them to abstain . No But are we sure that these passages always existed where we now find them ? The Christians have for many , very many centuries , had the posses- sion of these title - deeds of their religion ...
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Page 49 - For if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law, but the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
Page 177 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 176 - I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews, and. also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 20 - From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
Page 231 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Page 268 - But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none; And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not; And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 63 - They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?
Page 26 - What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith : 31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Page 177 - Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not ; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully ; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Page 236 - And now, Lord, behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word, by stretching forth thine hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.